Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-10
BITTEN BY DOGS.
Many Americans Who Privately PatroniZe |
Pasteur's Hydropilobic Institute. |

Many Americans Who Privately Patronize
Pasteur's Hydroplobic Institute.
Surgeon Charles A. Siegfried, of the
United States Navy, has returned from
Paris, where he looked into the Pasteur
system of fighting hydrophobia, with
view to its Introduction into Govern
ment hospital i'll this country. He says
that medical opinions in France differ
as to the efficacy of the NEGOTIATIONS,
but that the records of cases seem to
establish the value of Pasteurs work.
The number of Americans who resort
to Prof. Pasteur's institute is not sus~
pected by their countrymen. Many
make the trip privately, especially ii
they belong to well-to-do families able
to pay the expenses without publicity.
Besides, bitten persons are always 10th
to admit their nervousness, and there
fore 90 to Paris ostensibly for pleasure,
while their real errand is TO
get inoculated. Pasteur iau-
lmors their desire for secrecy, and
permits them to register under assumed
names. even when he knows who,ttey
really are, which is by no means al
WAYS A note of introduction from;the
American Minister is required, SIS
matter of form. No fee is charged. but
voluntary contributions are accepted.
and these 90 into fund for the ms.in-
tenance of the hospital. Pasteur per-
'sonally takes no pay.
A young New York lady who went
through the process assumed for the oc-
,casion the name Marietta Byrne.
Her pet dog had bitten her and then
died in commissions, so that she did not
know for a certainty whether or not
she was in danger of the dreaded
rabies. She rode to Pasteur' house. ut
Il Rue Vaquelln, whick is an insig-
nificant building in the midst of the
various schools in the Latin Quarter
She was accompanied By her fathe.:,
who presented her credentials and gave
all the particulars of her case to a clerk
who recorded them in S big book.
Then she was shown into az anterooms
and directed how to prepare her.
self for the opernio This consisted
simply III arranging her attire
so that. without delay, the surgeon
cOllEll InJtCb lllc fEuS ullUta Tie skill.
Then she was placed in iline with
seventeen ether bitten persons, all
women or children, for this day was set
apart fer them-men having had the
previous day. All marched Tnto the
room where Pasteur and his assistants
were in readiness. Or e surgeon stood
beside a table on which was glass jar
containing the protective fluid. Over
the top of this vessel WAS stretched
tiltering paper. Beside lay hTpo.
dermic syringe. The man thrust the
sharp. delicate nozzle of this insuu-
ment through the paper into the liquid
and filled if in that way. IL order that
by no possibility could it be vitiated by
contact with the air. Having thus
charged the syringe, he handed it to
the principal operator, who deftly in
serted it obliquely through the skin of
the patient and quickly injected its con-
tents. 1t was like the punctSTe of a
needle, and not very painful. The girl
bore it without finching, but some of
the children. as well as the more
ignorant adults, cried and struggled at
it. She had to return for additional in
jections during several weeks.-N T.
san.